Mononoke Hime

When an Emishi village is attacked by a fierce demon boar, the young prince Ashitaka puts his life at stake to defend his tribe. With its dying breath, the beast curses the prince's arm, granting him demonic powers while gradually siphoning his life away. Instructed by the village elders to travel westward for a cure, Ashitaka arrives at Tatara, the Iron Town, where he finds himself embroiled in a fierce conflict: Lady Eboshi of Tatara, promoting constant deforestation, stands against Princess San and the sacred spirits of the forest, who are furious at the destruction brought by the humans. As the opposing forces of nature and mankind begin to clash in a desperate struggle for survival, Ashitaka attempts to seek harmony between the two, all the while battling the latent demon inside of him. Princess Mononoke is a tale depicting the connection of technology and nature, while showing the path to harmony that could be achieved by mutual acceptance.

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San Main

Ishida, Yuriko Japanese

Ashitaka Main

Matsuda, Youji Japanese

Gozen, Eboshi Supporting

Tanaka, Yuko Japanese

Kodama Supporting

Yakul Supporting

Moro Supporting

Miwa, Akihiro Japanese

The Forest Spirit Supporting

Iinuma, Kei Japanese

Jiko, Bou Supporting

Kobayashi, Kaoru Japanese

Okkoto Supporting

Morishige, Hisaya Japanese

Toki Supporting

Shimamoto, Sumi Japanese

Suzuki, Toshio Producer

Miyazaki, Hayao Director, Theme Song Lyrics, Creator, Screenplay

Gaiman, Neil Script

Pannetier, Jean-Marc Script, ADR Director

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Mar 31, 2025

-Gurren-

Recommended

Held off on watching this for quite some time. Had the pleasure of seeing this in IMAX theatres a few days ago and was absolutely blown away.

The visuals as always are absolutely stunning as it is in most Ghibli movies.

I always enjoy the story in Ghibli films. Very well thought and always has a message that's relatively easy to convey, making it easy to digest for family and friends who want the movies as well.

The music really blew me away. I always listened to Joe Hisaishi mixes on YouTube so I was already familiar with the music, however it hit a lot ... harder hearing it in theatres and getting scene context as well.

Overall, really no complaints for Mononoke Hime. Will definitely watch it again. Will recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it already.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jan 31, 2023

benjihubs

Mixed Feelings

I don't get the hype of the movie. I watched it, and it was Fine. Not amazing as most people seem to think. If this movie was exactly the same but made by anyone else than Ghibli, i belive it would just been an anime lost in time, Howl's Flying castle was more entertaining to me. The animation was fine, great landscapes, clean but flat animation, not much depth on the charecters, but that is the style of Ghibli so that is fine. Story is nice and linear but also predictable, you know what will happen 5 minutes before it does. I think people ... mostly just give this a good review due to growing up with it. For a more adult first time view, i think it falls flat.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 5, 2025

Olterr

Not Recommended

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Hella boring, environmentalist propaganda.

The humans are a bunch of cripples and rejects trying to get by in a war torn land. They mine and chop down trees, which upsets the forest inhabitants such as the violent boars that literally do nothing aside from trying to kill humans. THEIR EXISTENCE IS TO KILL HUMANITY. But these are the creatures in the moral right? The boars should die. Same for the wolves. They are wolves, they exist to kill animals yet is that depicted? Nope. What do they eat? Humans? Genuinely that might be it. Root for the human eating wolves and genocidal boars please!

Girl raised by ... wolves that eat people is actually super empathetic and loves nature. Oh but she HATES humans. Why? Because people chop down trees and mine ore to make guns. This is your reason for generational hatred? She is just being unreasonable to be honest. According to the movie, mining causes plants to die. And the forest creatures get really angry about this. Ok. So what should the humans do instead? Just die? This genuinely seems to be the suggestion the movie makes. Stop mining, stop chopping down trees and just die. People love this message. Quite odd.

The argument people make about this is that the ore is used to make weapons which is issue. But this doesn't make much sense, because the ground becoming poisoned is a result of the mining itself, not the fact that the ore is used to make weapons. So at the end of the movie when the female leader of Irontown realises that killing is bad, mkay she will just keep mining and continue poisoning the earth. Mining while smiling causes less pollution? Nonsensical stuff. But all the violent genocidal boars are dead so there are no more issues. Genociding other species was actually a good idea and everything worked out for the best for everyone. Unintentionally based?

Then there is the MC who is super chill, but attracted to the genocidal human girl. She never reciprocates these feelings though so it is just weird following this guy trying to rizz up this girl that clearly shows zero interest. (I think she might be furry if you know what I mean). Quite disgusting stuff tbh. Then there is massive tar invasion explosion, which I think is a reference to hiroshima and nagasaki. I think the creator of studio ghibli is still angry about that one. But when the fat ugly bastard character gives away the god's head the tar goes away and nature becomes healed again. The boars got genocided, the wolves are practically extinct as well. But they had it coming.

Overrated af. Princess mononoke is a total B-word, and the ending is a total blue balls anyways. The art is neat and the tree god stuff is cool I guess, but yeah, studio ghibli creator cringe propaganda is so blatant. He also seems to hate good endings.(Although humans winning is in a way a good ending) Maybe because of the bombs.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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